Improvement in sewing-machine tables



M. GRITZNER. Sewing-Machine Table.

No. 204,724. Patented June 11, I878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

MAX GRITZNER, OF DURLACH, BADEN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 20 1,7241, dated June 11, 1878; application filed May 13, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX GRITZNER, of Durlach, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Table and Chair for Sewing-Machines, of which improvements the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its objects,'first, the utilization, as an extension of the table-surface, of the cover or top generally employed to inclose the sewing-machine proper; second, the combination, with the stand or table support, of a chair or seat so contrived as that the same may serve both as a case to surround and protect the driving mechanism and a comfortable chair adapted to be used for operating the sewing-machine with which it is combined.

In the accompanying drawing I have represented in Figure 1 a perspective view of a sewing-machine case constructed in accordance with my said invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, but with the top or cover applied to the side of the table and with the front part of the case removed, the latter part being shown in perspective view in Fig. 3, and represents a chair. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the sewing-machine case, showing the cover attached to the side as an extension of the table, the front being closed by the back of the chair. Fig. 5 is a View of the cover or top seen from the rear.

The top or cover 0 is provided on one side with two hooks, G G, which may engage with corresponding eyes, F F, attached to one side of the table D. On the same side of the top on which the hooks are located, but at the bottom thereof, there is also a projection, H, by means of which the cover, when hooked onto the table side, will be braced against one of the side standards of the table or support or frame A, and held flush with the tablesurface.

To properly secure the cover onto the table, other suitable mechanical devices may be employed.

This top, which, during the operation of the machine, cannot be used, and is frequently in the way, and therefore a source of inconvenienoe, will, by the arrangement described,

be properly utilized by affording the (in many cases) necessary extension of the table, and

which has heretofore been effected by a hingeflap or table-leaf. The chair B L (shown in Fig. 3) is so arranged that it can be fitted against the front of the table and its standards or supports, so that the back B of the chair, which, for that purpose, may be suitably ornamented, shall inclose the driving mechanism,and thus render the same inaccessible to children, and also to dust, and give the sewing-machine an ornamental appearance, while it disposes of a chair, which, in small apartments, is a convenience.

The seat L is made wider and higher than is customary with ordinary chairs, it having been ascertained by experience that ordinary chairs are not only uncomfortable, but induce attitudes of the body of the operator of sewing-machines which have been found to be injurious to health. 'When the chair is shoved into the sewing-machine case the front edge of the seat comes in contact with the rear wall or board M of the casing of the table, and the rear legs or lower projections of the back of the chair fit into corresponding mortises or slots X X in the foot-board O of the case.

Instead of the projecting legs and mortises a flange may be applied to the foot-board, which will hold the lower and rear end of the chair B in place.

The upper part of the chair may be provided with a lock, E, whereby the case may be closed and locked up.

If the cover be provided with-a hook, such as is in common use with sewing-machines, by the means of which hook the drawer S is or may be secured, and if the latter be so arranged with reference to the chair that it cannot be removed or drawn out when the chair is in place in the case, then the single lock E will perform the triple function of securing and locking the top, the drawer, and the case, which is of no little importance in the transportation of sewing-machines.

Having thus described my said invention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a sewing-machine table and its side standards or supports with a Intestimonywhereoflhavesigned myname movable chair constructed, substantially as to this specification in the presence of two shown and described, so that the latter may subscribing witnesses.

constitute, with the table, its side supports, MAX GRITZNER and back, a perfect and ornamental case, 1nclosing the driving mechanism, and capable WVitnesses:

of being locked up, substantially as shown MAX V. KUNZENDORFF,

and set forth. YoH. SCHEU. 

